Here are some cold winter tips from Sungate Energy Solutions for saving your money and saving you from using unnecessary fossil fuels to power your home. It really doesn’t matter if you live in Maine or sunny Southern California, there will still be a need to keep winter’s cold air outside of your home where it belongs.

Did you know that 10% to 25% of the money you spend on your energy bills to heat your home in the winter literally goes out the window? There are some steps that you can take to eliminate this during the cold climate times of the year. Sungate Energy Solutions can offer you some ideas that are up to date such as the scientifically designed windows that will not only save you money, save the air that we breathe from unnecessary fossil fuels, but also beautify your home and give you comfort. We offer Simonton’s highly technical Impressions windows. Along with the windows, Sungate suggests the use of Neat glass which is designed to help keep the windows cleaner.

The use of properly fitted shades and window treatments also help to insulate your home from cold weather. Look for drafts that enter your home from around doorways and have them professionally sealed.

There are many ways to save on fossil fuel power today. It will help the environment and help your family. Sungate Energy Solutions knowledgeable technicians will be happy to answer any of your questions.

If you’re thinking about remodeling your home, painting the outside walls of your home or even changing the way that you bring hot water to your home, Sungate Energy Solutions would like to offer you a simplified version of solar power facts.

What is solar energy? Solar energy is using the sun’s renewable source of energy to power your environment by creating electricity as well as hot water. Solar energy or power is even more reliable as a renewable energy source that water which is often called hydropower and wind. Solar energy can be brought directly to your home or business and can be stored or banked with the goal of reducing your energy bill to zero over time.

The concept of net metering allows uses of solar energy to take the solar energy not used and then either sell it back to the power company or to bank it and use it another time.

While saving and eventually making money from solar energy is advantageous, the effect of homes and businesses using solar energy on a very grand scale would be a positive influence in diminishing our dependence of fossil fuels.  Not only is it a clean source of energy, but the potential political effects of becoming independent of the burden of fossil fuel from the imbalance of trade to the economic plus of job creation are wonderfully positive. Sungate Energy Solutions is a leader in knowledge and implementation of solar systems.

So, do you think that renewable energy to create electricity is new? In 1882, the first energy generating turbine was built to combine water and gravity to make electricity. It was a hydroelectric plant. This new plant was challenged by its dependence on a specific type of terrain or natural resource as well as large transmission stations which were costly. Because transmission of electricity losses increase with the amount of distance travelled, these hydroelectric plants were only good for local use. A better solution is to have the power source close to where the power is used and then transmission stations become less important. The power needs to be something always available and can operate almost anywhere. Renewable power is preferred. Well, this sounds like something the sun might be able to handle.

Skip ahead to the present and Sungate Energy Solutions can help you with the production of heat, air conditioning, hot water heaters and other advantages of the use of solar power.

The five main blocks of the solar energy harvesting system are: the surplus or renewable energy source such as the sun, the converter or cells that gather the energy, the energy storage device, the electric converter, and the transmitters or receivers.

Sungate Energy Solutions can offer you simplified answers to life’s independence from electric companies. While it may not happen overnight, eventually you may have more power than you actually need or can use and you’ll find yourself with power in the bank.

There are many ways that you can use a passive solar design to save on your energy bills and be environmentally sound. By using this methodology, a home owner can actually reduce heating costs by 50%. Passive cooling designs can help to cool your house in the heat of the summer with well-designed overhangs, reflective coating on outside walls, windows, and roofs.

How do you create a passive solar home? A large part of the success of a passive solar home is carefully designing and maintaining a few simple techniques. If you’ve purchased an already built home, you can still work with products and ideas that one of the Solar Energy Solutions representatives can offer to you in the way of informative suggestions. For instance, by keeping all of the south facing glass clean, it allows for sun to enter your home unobstructed in the winter. By using the proper cool coating such as Sun Shield Texture Coating on your outside walls, those walls can be cooled by as much as 40% transferring that to cooler temperatures on the inside of your home.

By setting your thermostat to be programmed to turn off during the hours that you’re either not at home or are sleeping, will save you big bucks. Decide on a cool roof when you need to replace your old roof. You can actually lower the temperature of your roof by as much as 50%.

Planting trees in specifically located areas can save up to 25% on energy bills by both blocking the sun in the summer and the cold wind in the winter. By doing some simple landscaping, you’re not only saving on your own energy bills, but you’re saving the local energy grids from over use during the peak times of the seasons.

Sungate Energy Solutions has a full line of energy saving products to help you save money and the environment.

Sungate Energy Solutions is aware that bad news seems to grab the headlines from all of the good news that is happening. Here is some great news about a solar project in California’s huge Mojave Desert. The Mojave Desert spans an area that is larger than West Virginia. It means more to California than just a barren land filled with dust, sand and an occasional bush. It now has solar plants under construction that will provide renewable energy for millions of homes and businesses. Some in the solar industry consider it a new kind of gold rush – one that comes from the golden sunshine that warms beautiful California.

One such project is the BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System which is built on land near the California-Nevada border. This company is using mirrors to take the sun’s light and use the power to turn the turbines into electricity. By 2013, this plant should be the largest in the world and 140,000 homes will benefit from this inexpensive form of energy.

Sungate Energy Solutions is ready, willing and able to show you how you can benefit financially as well as live harmoniously with the environment.

In order to best understand how the sun’s energy can be used to bring power to your home, it’s best to understand the process.

You’ll hear the term photovoltaic used by our Sungate Energy Solutions representatives when they speak to you about the advantages of using solar energy. Photovoltaic or (PV) is a solar cell made of semi-conducting material which absorbs sunlight to produce electricity. Photovoltaic module solar cells are grouped typically by 40 cells to a group. A solar cell (PV) is a solid state electrical device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity. Then the solar modules gather together to capture the energy from sunlight. When multiple modules are grouped together on one plane, it’s called a solar panel. Solar panels are made up of solar modules and are not able to be broken down into a smaller unit than a module in order to perform their function. Solar panels, however, can be broken down into a stack of solar modules. Solar modules create solar energy or solar power. In Photovoltaic cells, the light source may not necessarily be sunlight.

The term photovoltaic is not new. It was first recognized by the French physicist, A. E. Boeguerel in 1839. In 1888, the first actual photovoltaic cell was first built in Russia. While many scientists worked on the use of solar power as a source of energy for electricity, it wasn’t until the middle of the 1960’s that Elliot Berman of Exxon was given the project of looking for alternative sources of energy. As energy has become more expensive and problematic regarding the environment, solar energy has become the subject of much research and is now considered a viable use of clean and economic power.

Please check out Sungate Energy Solutions and let one of our knowledgeable representatives come to your home and explain the financially and environmentally sound reasons to bring solar energy to your home.

• Somewhere in the house the hot water faucet is turned on.
• Cold water then goes into the tankless hot water heater.
• A sensor detects the water that entered the hot water heater..
• The computer automatically turns on the burner.
• Water goes around the heat exchange.
• The heat exchange then heats the water to the desired temperature.
• When you turn off the hot water, the tankless hot water heater then goes off.
• A natural gas powered unit costs less to operate than an electric one, is more powerful, and doesn’t need much amperage to run.

Did you know that a water heater is one of the top energy uses in your home? So to get the most efficient and long lasting benefits of a tankless hot water heater, go with natural gas. You will save more money on your monthly utility costs and Sungate Energy Solutions will show you how!